Drug Addiction Rehabilitation Program for Adolescents in Atlantic Canada – Portage Cassidy Lake

Drug Addiction Rehabilitation Program for adolescents in Atlantic Canada – Portage Cassidy Lake – Residents and graduates of the Portage Atlantic rehabilitation program at Cassidy Lake describe their struggles with substance abuse and their appreciation for the Portage drug addiction treatment program in New Brunswick. Residents, staff, and members of the community talk about how Portage helps Atlantic Canadian youth seek Freedom from Addiction. Portage is a cross-Canada non-profit organisation that fosters the strengths and skills of substance dependent persons to enable them, through comprehensive and cost-effective interventions based on the therapeutic community approach, to live lives of sobriety, filled with dignity, self-respect, and accomplishment. www.portage.ca

Inmates to get addiction treatment

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… that of 2.3 million U.S. inmates, 1.5 million suffer from substance abuse addiction. Another 458,000 inmates either had histories of substance abuse, were under the influence of alcohol or other drugs at the time of committing their crimes …
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Drunk and Defenseless

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However, if we only want to count sudden, violent deaths, we need but to look at the roughly 16,000 people who, according to the Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse, are killed annually in our country as a result of drunk driving. But we should not stop …
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Ex-NBA player tells his story of drug abuse

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There are people in this room who are going to travel the road of drug and alcohol abuse … become junkies, said Chris Herren, speaking to a room filled with high school and college athletes and their coaches and parents at Youngstown State University …
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